CERN Stress-Testing Large Hadron Collider, Everyone Hide Under a Chair

CERN has completed repairs of the Large Hadron Collider, and has begun running massive stress tests ahead of its relaunch in October, according to Syfy’s DVICE.

Through the end of last month, the Collider sent out data to 11 computer centers across Europe, Asia, and North America, which in turn relayed the data to 140 locations in 33 countries for processing, according to the report. “A whopping 4 GB a second was cranked out from the LHC, though researchers predict that, while operating, the LHC will only send out around 1.3 GB of data.” Essentially, that means all systems are go.

In June, CERN announced that they were pushing the LHC’s startup back an extra month, from September to October. CERN shut the particle accelerator down last September due to a liquid helium leak caused by an electrical fault.